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It feels too soon, perhaps because in everything he wrote, he opened up new ways of thinking, writing and reading. In his literary presence, the world seemed tuned to a higher frequency.

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There is nothing more human than betrayal.

On Amanpour & Co., which airs on CNN International and PBS, journalist Michel Martin commiserated with Nina Jankowicz, cringeworthy songbird and appointed director of the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board before the Orwellian outfit was scuttled after outcry from conservatives and concerns from liberal groups like the ACLU.  Host Bianna Golydryga set the tone with her introduction.

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The focus of Kundera's novels is their wrestle with questions of knowledge, the complexity of being and a constant uncertainty.

He finally found freedom in art, and in exile.

‘May in Paris was an explosion of revolutionary lyricism. The Prague Spring was the explosion of post-revolutionary scepticism.’ Milan Kundera in Granta 13.

In clashing bitterly over how an individual should best confront government evil, the two most famous Czech anti-communists unwittingly demonstrated how totalitarianism mangles human lives.

‘But since Europe itself is in the process of losing its own cultural identity, it perceives in Central Europe nothing but a political regime.’